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If you had: http://s1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee384/batsh1t_crazy/Pond length - 110' Width (taken in several places) 37', 41', 35', 31', 29' depth 10', 9' 7' (we could only measure in a few places down the middle of the pond as it was frozen and dark by the time we managed it) Location: Near Owen Sound, ON, Canada Angling pressure: Low (with a mix of adults and kids) Edit to add: No spring and/or water in or out. (as far as we are aware) What would you stock it with, how many, and why?
Last edited by Pond Scum; 12/27/11 01:35 PM.
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Try for a put and take trout fishery if that is what you are nterested in.
Bass and Bluegill may reproduce, but it could too far north and too small of a pond to make a supper great fishery with out more work.
Put and take walleye? A chance of NP or pickerell
If I had it, I would make it a minnow pond!!
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That's a nice little pond you have there. With your cold climate and maybe low O2 in the winter due to ice and snow cover you could try stocking a small number of adult Yellow Perch, fun to catch, good eating, and can withstand cold and low O2. The more you do with a small pond such as Aeration and feeding the more possibilities you have.
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I must admit I like the idea of LMB and BG, as they may be able to keep a small eco system going. However earlier my hubbie talked to a local guy who seemed to think we were crazy for even considering them in such a small pond, and said we'd be better to go with brown trout ( which I haven't researched at all yet, as I was under the impression the pond needed to be deeper / have a spring for trout)... so much to research I'm feeling overwhelmed.
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Brown Trout are a bit harder to catch, and will be less tolerant of lower O2 levels than either LMB or BG.
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